Among all the gifts of Archimandrite Paul, his gift as a storyteller is remarkable: he seemed to heal his interlocutor with the life-giving power of his word. Everyone who communicated with the priest, who listened to his stories, recalls with one voice that they left Father Pavel “as if on wings,” their inner world was so joyfully transformed. We hope that readers of Father’s stories will feel that joyful spiritual power in communication with the Yaroslavl elder. As Father Pavel said: “If I die, I will not leave you.” This righteous man lived a mighty life with God and with the people, sharing all the trials that befell Russia in the 20th century. The small homeland of Pavel Gruzdev - the county town of Mologa - was flooded by the waters of the Rybinsk man-made sea, and the Mologa exile became a migrant, and then a camp inmate, having served a sentence for his faith for eleven years. And again he returned to the Mologa land - more precisely, what was left of it after the flooding - and served here as a priest in the village of Verkhne-Nikulskoye for almost thirty years and three years...